Why play matters: Shifting math from rigid drills to playful exploration helps reduce anxiety and fosters a lasting love for ...

Why landmarks work: Landmarks offer visual, tangible contexts for abstract math concepts, making lessons more memorable and engaging. Skills in action: Projects integrate geometry, scale factors, ...

We teach the wrong math and test it the wrong way. We devote thousands of hours to the obsolete rote math that pervades our ...

She graduated from Dadeville High School in 1999. She went to the University of South Alabama and majored in math, then ...

At the beginning of a recent math class, students spent six minutes discussing a topic they knew well: themselves. What’s ...

Ron Eglash was not looking for a revolution when he stumbled across one. The American ethnomathematician, who tracks mathematics embedded in culture, was studying African settlement patterns in the ...

How about making math learning fun and engaging using video content? Well, this post provides you with a carefully curated collection of some popular YouTube math channels to use in your instruction.

Fenwick Maloba, a teacher at Menengai High School, holding a mathematical instrument he will use during his attempt to set a Guinness World Record for the longest marathon mathematics lesson of 45 ...

Take the pressure off of problem solving with engaging thinking games that encourage students to work together to find solutions. Like many teachers, I used to think of problem-solving as something I ...

Manipulatives can be a powerful tool in any mathematician’s toolbox. Just as we might take a screw or a wrench to fix a squeaky chair, we can use manipulatives to help solve math problems. We may see ...

If math was never your strongest subject, take a number. But veteran teacher Courtney Phillips discovered math is hidden in an ancient game. In 20 years as a 4th grade teacher, she observed that math ...